Transcriptions of the word paradise, from the first inscription in the royal Aryan Script cuneiform (522-486 BC) to the contemporary word paradise, applied to 18 windows of the reading room of the American Commemorative Library, Berlin.In cooperation with the Institute of Iranian Studies and the Library of the Freie Universität Berlin. Special thanks to Dr. Götz König (Freie Universität, Berlin, Institute of Iranian Studies) as well as Gity Salami and Karmann Haghmoradi (Library of the Freie Universität, Berlin, Dept. Antiquity / Orient).